The Annual Report of Human Rights Violations of Other Nations

The United States recenlty released its annual report of the human rights violations of other nations. This gleaned from the Fox News article on the subject:

The study, published each year since 1977, offers a comprehensive analysis of all countries in the world except the United States.

Well, you know, the U.S. is NEVER gonna look at their own HORRIFIC human rights violations done here and worldwide. That might cut into the money of the already excessively wealthy who own this alleged nation. But I am gonna overlook that reports lack of "looking into the mirror at its own ugliness" and look into the ugliness of U.S. violations of human rights here, AND WORLDWIDE.

The U.S. report mostly targets China, one of the favored U.S. trading partners:

"The United States branded China an authoritarian human rights abuser Tuesday, citing alleged torture, state control of basic aspects of daily life, tight controls on religion and harassment of foreign charities."

There is a thing called complicity. That is, if you know a crime is happening and do nothing to stop it, then you are just as responsible for that crime as the person committing it. If you know your neighbor is raping his daughter and do nothing to stop it, you are just as guilty for the crime because you, as a human being, are required to take actions against such a crime.

The U.S. is a trading partner with China (80% of all Christmas decorations come from China). For the U.S. to point out the Human Rights violations of this nation is also to point the finger at U.S. complicity in those Human Rights violations. The U.S., in taking no action against these crimes and continuing China's favored trading nation status makes the U.S. just as guilty for all of those human rights violations as China itself.

Let's take a quick glance at this part of that article sentence: "state control of basic aspects of daily life."

Indians know about state control of our lives. We LIVE IT under the U.S. occupation. Just ask the folks of Pine Ridge who suffer greatest under this arbitrary crime and violation of Human Rights.

So now, Part 1 of a laymans observation of U.S. human rights violations.

The article I read states about China; "Forced relocations went up last year, the report said. It noted claims that people were forced from their homes to make way for Olympic projects in Beijing."

Did you hear that Cherokee folks? That's right, forced relocations are a violation of Human Rights. We'll go over that article later. I'm sure all of you survivors of Eisenhower's Termination Policies understand this violation in many different depths as well, huh?

So, here are a couple of Universal Declaration of Human Rights articles we'll start our discussion of U.S. human rights violations here and WORLDWIDE!

Article 15.

(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 15 is very interesting especially in light of Ike's genocidal Termination Policies. The U.S. through the act of terminating Indian Tribes in the '50's they ARBITRARILY declared extinct, had the arbitrarily removed the Human Right of nationality from many indigenous nations within the occupied territories currently known as the United States. This is a CRIME, not only against Human Rights, but a crime of Genocide.

My father used to regret the fact he threw a letter away sent to him after the Termination Policy fucked over my folks. The letter stated, according to my dad, that he was no longer an Indian, he was now a U.S. citizen, and had the right to join the military and to vote. He'd already did time in the military and had been voting since being of age. Does anyone out there have similar letters or know of sources I can find links to them?

Our national identity as indigenous folks within the boundaries of the occupied territories is also CONTROLLED by the U.S. government.

These, and many other issues around this specific article, have seriously effected indigenous nations on OUR OWN LANDS by the illegal occupation of the United States government. There are more connections I can make, but why don't you all take a shot?

Article 17.

(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Now here is another Human Rights violation that fits with Ike's Termination policies. As Indians we owned, as it were, property in common, or, in association with others. These lands were ARBITRARILY removed from indigenous hands. Many indigenous folks received money for this land, but let me make a metaphor here:

A man rapes a woman in a park and leaves her a $20 bill when he is finished. Does that then make it a business deal instead of rape? Is that woman then a whore instead of a victim and survivor of rape? Is that man then a John instead of a rapist?

So, in my opinion, the U.S. seems to be the GREATEST violator of Human Rights. Of course, the U.S. isn't going to write about it's own violations of Human Rights. Might cut in to the business end of things and of course, we all know, capital is much more important than Human Rights. That's why the U.S. will continue to do business with China, whom the U.S. alleges to be one of the greatest violators of Human Rights.

We are now open for discussion.